/lit/ - Literature

>>1759254
Yea back when the GI Bill actually delivered and you could go to school for liberal arts with the money

op your image could be a shit brix image

>>1759235
I will have to check it out too, but I'm definitely an anti-rationalist at the moment.

>>1759231
>he thinks I'm not the internet

>>1759218
Hey thanks for showing me this I like it so much. I will definitely look for Epictetus

>>1759210
>he relies on predetermined language conventions instead of coming up with his own language

>>1759202
Doesn't matter if she hears, he says it as if to himself.

Def soliloquy

>>1759169
Yeah, I don't see how this is meant to really reflect on the band itself.

>>1759161
Don't talk to me about how Refused is not about emotion until you've listened to them. A lot more emotion there than in The Clash.
>>1759158
Yep, you would think so. But in my neck of the woods, the punks are so much more influenced by the Doom, Amoebix, crossover/black metal strand of music..so, Refused is way too bookish I think.

>>1759148
Word. It's hard to be a practitioner of esoteric buddhism, though. Where to find a teacher?

>>1759147
Yeah, I just see this as concessions made to necessity, whereas Cynicism was radical, challenging and most of all highly-accessible to someone who is poor, disaffected, and living with the consequences of being a marginal character. Anyone can be a Diogenes, except those who are unwilling to give up what they have--If you have nothing, you're already ahead of the game. This is why cynicism appeals to me more. I've read The Meditations, and I see a lot of high-mindedness and breeding and refinement, and that is something beautiful...but my second thought is to shit on it.

>>1759126
You have to have read and understood a few mid century texts on social stratification and critical theory to appreciate Refused and no they are not much like Husker Du.
>>1759132
I ask myself this all the time..even the very political punks i know are pretty ignorant of their existence. maybe because they aren't from the US or the UK?

>>1759131
I think you have less control over your life than you imagine..maybe you are only afraid to truly live

>>1759127
I don't know, I'm really off with that..Diogenes was like the grandfather of the stoics..I guess it would be more accurate to say that Stoicism took the cynicism of Diogenes and made it safe for the aristocracy...Marcus Aurelius was not going to beg in front of a whorehouse.

>>1759122
Buddhism has a self-annihilating central figure--a "vanishing medium"..Buddhism wears veils, whereas the stoic shows its bones..I know the tendency is to venerate that kind of "honesty" but personally I like the mist of mysticism..sometimes..depends on how desperate I'm feeling, I suppose.

>>1759114
>it's like punk for smart people
I disagree. Refused is like punk for smart people.

>>1759115
I like stoicism as well, but to me Diogenes demonstrated that only the aristocracy had the luxury of stoicism. Cynicism=stoicism for the rest of us? Not sure, but it sounds good.

>>1759098
>I'd sooner kill myself
Wow. Where do you get *that* from? Your god of "intellectual integrity" asks of you the ultimate sacrifice? A simple, irrational faith lets me sleep a little more soundly even under a bridge and welcome dumpster-dive vegetables as a gift. Right now I'm so happy to be in a house and typing away on 4chan, because this is something given to me, not won by the integrity of my will.

is this the real life?

>>1759072
Oh, it's an option--it really is. Who is your "big other" enforcing this intellectual "integrity" on you?

>>1759054
Why because your parents told you imaginary friends were childish?

>>1759045
Must be lonely, just sayin'

>>1759012
Just because something doesn't care about you doesn't mean you can't care about it. damn, 4chan.